Installation report 1 for beta 1

[John Summerfied]

Charles Curley wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 03:05:10PM +0800, John Summerfied wrote:

>>file, or to request information to fill in the information required to
>>complete
>>various on-screen forms. In this specific instance, where I am
>>testing/evaluating a new (beta) release, it would be convenient for me to
>>specify the source URI for the installation media, maybe
>>http://fedora.example.lan/beta1/i386/ - and, of course, timezone,
>>keyboard and
>>language choices.
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> John, you can use the DHCP server in Fedora to serve up the location
> of a kickstart file. I do it routinely here. It involves adding a line
> or two to your DHCP config file. See the Red Hat 9 Customization Guide
> (http://www.redhat.net/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/pdf/rhl-cg-en-9.pdf).
> 

I'd downloading the doc to see whether you're telling me something I 
don't know - I normally do kickstart installs, using PXE or a modified 
boot CD, but I particularly wanted to do a normal interactive install 
this time.

It might be that ks actually does much what I want; I've never done an 
interactive ks install.

I was thinking, maybe
  ... kbd=pc-us LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 TZ=Australia/Perth src=nfs://server/path
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>>Now, the installation has died and there's a traceback. This brings me to
>>another gripe. I have a scrollable window of four lines. This
>>impossiblly small
>>(and persuaded me to not read the release notes). Someone needs to go to
>>usability school!
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> 
> Speaking of usability school, please do something about the hideous
> line wrapping of this email.

It's a mazing what Moz will do:-)

Helped with a little vim.

I created the report in vim. I thought I was doing it on my desktop, 
where I've configured vim to wrap at 72. That would have been fine. 
However, I was actually doing it on my (other) laptop where I've not 
changed vim's defaults, and the text got wrapped at column 80.

Then, suspecting RH's mailing list software strips attachmends, I opened 
the installations in kwrite so as to swipe and paste:-)


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